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Animated desktop: For ubuntu 13.04 Raring /ubuntu 13.10 Saucy

November 7, 2013April 23, 2017 akshay pai 8 Comments a desk, animated desktop, atomic city, Linux, live background, raring, saucy, see the source, seethesource, ubuntu, ubuntu 13.04, ubuntu 13.10, video background

An animated desktop looks amazing, and what can be more cooler than having the ability to setup an animated desktop

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Data encoding/decoding in python

October 22, 2013April 23, 2017 akshay pai 4 Comments Base64, data decoding, decoding, encoding, encryption in python, python, see the source, seethesource

I was given a QR CODE  and the contents of it were encrypted or encoded data. It could have been any

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CPU utilisation viewing : with Python

October 2, 2013April 23, 2017 akshay pai 0 Comments Conky, conky manager, cpu monitor, cpu utilisation, python, see the source, seethesource, system details GUI

I was curious to know the amount of CPU that is being used to perform tasks on my ubuntu system.

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Impress.js : presentations in a better way!!

September 23, 2013May 1, 2017 akshay pai 2 Comments alterrnate to prezi, impress.js, presentaton in 3D, see the source, seethesource

Whether its microsoft powerpoint you use or libre impress, giving presentations are the same. But what if there was a

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Store and read data between dictionary and text file in python

September 15, 2013May 1, 2017 akshay pai 4 Comments Dictionary, dictionary to file, file to dictionary, python, read file, write file

Dictionary, a very god example of hash mapping data structure (hash table) where the  Contents are stored in <key,value> pair.

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Execeptions in Python: What they mean..

August 30, 2013April 23, 2017 akshay pai 0 Comments Exception handling, Index Error, Key Error, python, python exceptions, Zero Division Error

Errors arise even from a syntactically correct statement and The error that is detected during the execution of  a statement

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Things to do after installing ubuntu

August 25, 2013May 1, 2017 akshay pai 1 Comment bumblebee, gimp, see the source, seethesource, ubuntu, vlc

Ubuntu 12.04 is the latest LTS (long term support)  OS available.But after it is installed there are few things that

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Rescuing windows when boot loader is deleted.

August 22, 2013May 1, 2017 akshay pai 3 Comments bootloader, currupt, deleted, rescue windows, see the source, seethesource, ubuntu grub, window grub, Windows

I had installed ubuntu 13.04 and wanted to install 12.04LTS . I knew that directly deleting the Ubuntu partition will

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How to change and remove Ubuntu startup sound

August 17, 2013May 1, 2017 akshay pai 6 Comments login sound, seethesource, source dexter, sourcedexter, ubuntu, ubuntu 13.04

All the ubuntu system sounds like the startup sound, the error sounds,etc are of.  ogg format. All of them are

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